Match
of the Week
Each week, Match of the Week foced on a "mad"
game
of football between two cockeyed teams.
So we had
teams of Shop Staff Vs Customers, Bus Drivers
Vs
Conductors (an all-ticket affair), Snow White Vs The
Bad
Witch and as many different loopy combinations
as you
can imagine....
This being Fleetway footy, any conceivable method
to
beat the opposition would be employed. Hence when we
saw Cops Vs Robbers (ShSh#2) in The Stolen
Cop Winners
Cup, the Cops set their patrol dogs on the Robbers,
the
Robbers snared the Cops in their own handcuffs, then
the
Cops distracted the Robbers' striker by placing a fake
jewellers window next to the goal.

You could say it was a forerunner to the Premiership.

Originally this was a strip in the Shake section of
Shiver
& Shake and its companion Annuals.

The very first match was a Western League Cup
Tie between
Cowboys and Indians (ShSh#1). After a year's worth
of
stupidity the strip bowed out with a Cup Final
Match featuring
Ref's XI Vs Spectators (ShSh#52) which, after
various
shenanigans, ended with the disgruntled
supporters in the
stands taking to the field to show them all how a "real"
footy match should be played...

Match of the Week experienced several different
title changes
over the years. Originally its full title was
Shake's Match of
the Week. But in its 1974 and 1975 Annual appearances
it was retitled Match of the Year.

In 1978 that very first ShSh strip was reprinted
in the
Krazy Annual, only now it was called Mad
Match.

It's interesting to note that the very first strip
was drawn
by Mike Lacey, but the second week saw Mike Brown
holding the pen. Lacey then returned to
draw the majority
(if not all) of the subsequent matches...

Match
of the WeekFacts & Figures

Also known as:
Shake's Match
of the Week
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Mad Match
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Match of the Year